Author: Joan Wyndham
Title: Love Lessons: a Wartime Diary
Description: Flamingo 1986 Paperback, 208pp. "August, 1939. ?I looked at my flushed face in the glass and tidied my hair, thinking what an awful tart I am. There was a terrible love bite on my cheek, so I got a pin and made a few scratches across it, and told Mummy a cat had scratched me. Later we listened to a very stirring speech about ?blood, toil, sweat, and tears.?? As a teenage Catholic virgin, Joan Wyndham spends her days in London?s bohemian Chelsea trying to remain pure and unsullied and her nights trying to stay alive. Huddled in the air raid shelter, she writes secretly and obsessively in her diary about the strange yet exhilarating times she is living through, sure that it is ?the happiest time of my life.? ", (ISBN: 9780006541646). Fair.

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